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Fire Emblem And Xenoblade Heroes Join Project X Zone 2‘s Crazy 

Namco Bandai’s tactics RPG cavalcade of cross-company characters is exclusive to a Nintendo handheld, so how about some Nintendo-owned heroes? Fire Emblem: Awakening’s Chrom and Lucina are a great start, and they’ve picked a perfect partner for Xenosaga’s KOS-MOS. Namco Bandai promised new character announcements for Project X Zone 2 when Richard Eisenbeis played the…

Splatoon Players Are Damn Good At Throwing Shade

Wooooow. So that’s how it is, huh? Splatfest—the event where Splatoon asks players to pick between two sides and duke it out against one another—is happening this weekend, and some of the trash talking I’ve seen in the Miiverse plaza is FIERCE, as evidenced by this screenshot taken by Brittany Rolstad‎. It’s kind of unsettling…

20 Excellent Super Mario Maker Courses You Should Play

I have spent dozens of hours playing through hundreds of Mario Maker courses. Here’s the cream of the crop. One of the biggest criticisms I’ve seen floating around for Mario Maker is that it’s really difficult to find good courses. While that may be true, it doesn’t mean Mario Maker is completely bereft of great…

Mario Maker Level Is An Awesome Tribute To Dragon Ball Z

Here’s a simple yet sweet Dragon Ball tribute made by Eddie Stilson in Super Mario Maker It’s a musical stage, full of renferences, where Dragon Ball Z’s iconic, first opening theme Head-Cha-La plays, as we run forward. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Track: Puzzle Swap 3DS Guitar Cover | Album: N/A | Artist: FamilyJules7X Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Our First Hands-on With Hyrule Warriors Legends on 3DS

Hyrule Warriors Legends, the upcoming enhanced 3DS port of Wii U title Hyrule Warriors was playable for the first time at the Tokyo Game Show this week. The TGS demo shows off a lot of the new content not seen in the Wii U game. The level itself is an original and allows players to…

Star Fox Zero Has Been Delayed To 2016

Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has just publisheda statement on the company’s Facebook page saying that Star Fox Zero for the Wii U has been delayed. Bummer. The statement reads: I made a big decision last week. We have been developing Star Fox Zero for Wii U with the aim of releasing it this year. Although we…

Crappy Levels Are Not Ruining Super Mario Maker

Hardcore Mario fans are exasperated right now—it’s really difficult to find good Mario Maker levels. Want to play gimmick levels, auto run levels, slight variations on 1-1, and hilariously difficult levels with poor game design? You can find those anywhere in the brand-new Wii U game. It’s flooded with them. I’ve seen blame cast on…

Look At This Fire Emblem Action Figure

Behold Lucina, resplendent and thoroughly badass in action figure form. This Figma, first shown in 2013, then originally due out earlier this year but delayed for months, is finally out. Mine arrived yesterday, and hoo boy, it’s been worth the wait. She comes with two different head options, two face options, a Marth mask, multiple…

Nintendo has told IGN that its Nintendo Direct videos, lovable PR blasts that became synonymous with former President Satoru Iwata, will continue, though “we have no details to provide now on who will be featured”.

Lucha Libre Pikachu Looks Badass In The Pokémon Fighting Game

Why have one Pikachu in your Pokémon game when you can have two? I was ready to react to “Masked Pikachu” with “Fuck Pikachu,” but after watching its trailer, I’ve decided that actually, this version of the yellow mouse is pretty awesome. Masked Pikachu makes more sense to include than normal Pikachu, who otherwise looks…

Mario Maker Comes To Smash Bros., Looks Like Complete Chaos

On September 30, both the Wii U and 3DS versions of Super Smash Bros. will be getting a neat new addition: a stage based on Mario Maker. It looks very cool. As you can see, Maker’s giant hand comes in at the start of the fight, whips up a level and then you go at…

Mario Maker ‘My Wife’ Level Tells A Short, Sad Story

Uh…dang, dude. This is some heavy stuff. Floating around Mario Maker is a quick level made by “P Morty” titled “My Wife.” You can watch a ‘playthrough’ of it below: Spelled out in coins are four simple words. “My wife left me.” Could be a prank—Wii U owners have traditionally used Miiverse to say all…

Some Inside Baseball For Nintendo Fans As EAD Transforms

Nintendo’s vaunted internal game development groups are merging as part of a structural changes at the house of Mario, changes that we’d be lying if we said we fully understood. But, hey, who doesn’t like staring at a revised org chart and trying to deduce gaming’s future in the process? The change at the top…

The Newest Legendary Is Actually Five Different Pokémon In One

It might be in the running for “most ridiculous Pokémon yet.” If you play Pokémon at all, then you’re probably already familiar with Zygarde. It looks like this: Well, as it turns out, that’s actually one of many different forms that this Pokémon can take. First, the Pokemon starts out as a cell. Then it…

Nintendo’s New President Has Been Named

It’s not Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. It’s not Wii mastermind Genyo Takeda. It’s the company’s former Managing Director and current Nintendo Human Resources headTatsumi Kimishima. Nintendo made the announcementtoday in Japan. The company’s previous president, Satoru Iwata,passed away earlier this year. Kimishima was Nintendo of America’s president from 2002 to 2006 and succeeded by Reggie…

Go To Google And Search “Super Mario Bros“

Then get clicking on that box. Loudly, if you’re at work. And be sure to keep going past 100 coins. I’m guessing this is for the game’s 30th birthday celebrations. Add it to the list of neat little surprises the search giant seems to be able to conjure at will for video game stuff.

All The Enemies And Items In Super Mario Maker In One Video

Tireless Nintendo game chronicler MasterofHyrule started off creating a video of all of the enemies and items in Super Mario Maker that could come out of a canon or pipe. Then he upped it to all the enemies and items in the game. Then… …he decided to demonstrate what happens to each enemy or item…

Super Mario Bros. Turns 30 Today — When Did You First Play?

On September 13, 1985, Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. for the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan. My first encounter with the heroic plumber came a year later at a local bar. The game that many credit with resurrecting North America’s video game industry after the Atari/Coleco era crash arrived in the states at a point…

Disney Infinity 3.0 Valiantly Attempts To Emulate Splatoon

One of Disney’s downloadable creations for Infinity 3.0 is a paint turf war mini-game called “Squid Wars”. It’s far from perfect, but isn’t it oh-so-adorable that they tried? Owners of Disney Infinity 3.0 are only a couple of confusing menu screens away from participating in their own Disney-created squid-inspired paint battles for up to four…